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Friday, January 15, 2010

GODORT Steering 1: 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. COP-Essex North-West
Amy West, Chair. Members of Steering will report and discuss on actions since the Annual meeting in Chicago, July 2009. Much of the reporting has already taken place online via ALA Connect.

GODORT Update: 10:30 – 12:00 p.m. BCEC-Room 162 A/B
The GODORT web pages contain some exceptional tools for accessing international, federal, and state government resources. We’ve gathered together a panel of web managers from GODORT committees and task forces to highlight some of these important web-based reference resources and how to use them to access government information. Additional discussion will include tips on how to use the GODORT wiki and ALA Connect to keep abreast of ALA GODORT activities.

State & Local Documents Task Force: 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. COP-St. George
Suzanne Sears, Chair. Join us for an in-depth discussion/tip sharing session on getting grants for digitization projects involving state and local government information. We will also discuss how to work with local agencies and organizations as partners to develop a portal to the digital content. Our guest speaker will be Dreanna Belden from the University of North Texas. She will discuss the efforts behind The Portal to Texas History http://texashistory.unt.edu/. draft agenda

Federal Documents Task Force: 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. COP-Staffordshire draft agenda
Kirsten Clark, Chair. In additon to reports and announcements from GODORT Committee liasons, there are two main agenda items. Ric Davis, GPO, will provide an update of Government Printing Office activities. Roger Schonfeld and Ross Housewright from Ithaca S+R will give a brief presentation on their recent report Documents for a Digital Democracy, which will be followed by discussion and question/answer time.

Rare and Endangered Government Publications (REGP): 10:30 – 12:00 p.m. COP-St. George
Andrew Laas, Chair. The Committee continues its work to survey holdings rare government publications in depository libraries. We will be assessing progress and hearing updates from liaisons.

Education Committee (Linda Spiro, Chair); Government Information Technology Committee (GITCO)(Shari Laster, Chair); (joint meeting): 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. COP-Staffordshire.
Are you interested in exploring which online training/delivery systems work best for various types of training? Join the joint GODORT Education and GITCO committee meeting for an overview of selected systems followed by small group discussions matching systems to types of training. The second hour the committees will conduct separate business meetings with Education focusing on competencies for beginning government information librarians and ideas for online training, and GITCO discussing a number of ongoing projects and outreach opportunities. 2010 Education Midwinter Agenda. 2010 GITCO Midwinter Agenda.